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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ves·ta /ˈvɛstə/
 神話女神;小行星名;火柴一種

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ves·ta n.
 1. Rom. Myth. One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it.
 2. Astron. An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807.
 3. A wax friction match.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Vesta
      n 1: (Roman mythology) goddess of the hearth and its fire whose
           flame was tended by vestal virgins; counterpart of Greek
           Hestia
      2: the brightest asteroid but the fourth to be discovered